In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

The problem of insufficient security was, until quite recently, a matter of a minority; now it is becoming very quickly a majority matter. That is a major change.